Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in
letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and
rewards of raising two sons. "We are all writing our maybe books
full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another
maybe tomorrow, and then another, until the last line of the last
page receives its period." In 2003, already an older father,
National Book Award-winning novelist Tim O'Brien resolved to give
his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him--a
few scraps of paper signed "Love, Dad." Maybe a word of advice.
Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe
some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they
might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author
talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what
they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the
living. O'Brien traverses the great variety of human experience and
emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risque lullabies,
from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet
bedtime stories, but always returning to a father's soul-saving
love for his sons. The result is Dad's Maybe Book, a funny, tender,
wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the
reader's heart with joy and recognition. Tim O'Brien and the
writing of Dad's Maybe Book are now the subject of the documentary
film The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien available to watch at
timobrienfilm.com
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